Martin Sheen voices George Washington in a five-part series timed to America's 250th anniversary that leans on interviews ...

The five-part docuseries, directed by Brian Knappenberger and produced by Tom Hanks, connects the events of the American Revolution to the current fragility of America's democracy.

On the cusp of the 250th anniversary of its founding, the United States of America is at a crossroads. For those invested in ...

Netflix's "The American Experiment" refuses to flatter U.S. history, turning the nation's 250th birthday into a sharp warning ...

The uncertainty principle says that you can’t know certain properties of a quantum system at the same time. For example, you can’t simultaneously know the position of a particle and its momentum. But ...

In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, the late Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould imagined rewinding life’s history to an early ...

In 1953, the Miller-Urey Experiment showed how organic molecules could have been created by the conditions of the early Earth. Chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey tried to replicate the ...

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IN A darkened auditorium in September 2008, I sat in the audience awaiting the start of a presentation entitled “The psychology of evil” by social psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Suddenly, the doors at ...

From the time of the founding era to the present day, one of the more common things said about American democracy is that it is an “experiment.” Most people can readily intuit what the term is meant ...